On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:22:36PM +0000, Ian Phillipps wrote: > Defining the local parameter is doing a lot of damage. Some can be saved > by using $_[0] rather than "shift": > ... but that's not the point, is it?
The benchmark wouldn't be fair if we did that. Can't compare unreadably optimized Perl code vs readable Ruby & Python code. They get named argument parameters cheaply, Perl doesn't. It hurts, but ya gotta accept it. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Beer still cheaper than crack!
